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Beckwith made his appearance. His attitude was 

 belligerent and he strode toward me, saying: 



"Why, what is this? You can't stay here! This 

 is the centre reserved for pianos, paintings, and works 

 of art. All the minerals will have to go into the 

 annex, where the machinery and minerals are all to 

 go, etc." 



I mildly informed him of his assent that the ex- 

 hibitors were to select their places, and was not the 

 Colorado exhibit as displayed one of the first to be in 

 place, and worthy of the position, and having brought 

 the collection so far over a long distance, would it not 

 be best to leave it as established. But he would have 

 nothing of it and left with much indignation, for I had 

 selected the very centre of the American department, 

 with a liberal extension of some forty feet on each side 

 of an angle, and had the front floor well held down by a 

 few tons of mineral masses, coal, ingots of silver and 

 copper, and other products of similar character. Suf- 

 fice to say that the Colorado exhibit remained through- 

 out the exhibition in this place. 



General Dix was then our Minister to France. 

 Paris was very gay with its large influx of foreign 

 visitors, and the American delegation was largely 

 represented. At least it seemed very gay and attrac- 

 tive to me, so much so that I found it very difficult to 

 do much sober work. 



I published fifteen thousand substantial pamphlets 

 on Colorado, one third of each in English, French, 

 and German, all illustrated with a map of the United 

 States and of Colorado, with a list of the ores ex- 

 hibited, and a general description of the products of 

 the Territory and its history. 



